Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation Chemical and Biological Protection Corps of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (RCBZ), said that the Ministry of Health of one of the Central African countries is investigating the possibility of artificial spread of the virus. The Ebola virus was discovered in September last year by military biologists from the United States.
The Ministry of Health of one of the Central African provinces is investigating the possibility of artificial spread of the Ebola virus in September 2022.
According to him, the strain isolated is exactly the same as the virus discovered in Africa during the Ebola epidemic in 2012.
He noted that one version of the spread of the species was “careless handling of pathogens by American military biologists.”
In December last year, the press service of Rospotrebnadzor said On strengthening Ebola-related anti-epidemic measures due to the detection of a suspected case of the disease in the UK. Previously reportedIn East Anglia, it was reported that one of the departments of the Colchester hospital was quarantined on suspicion of Ebola virus in one of the patients.
Vitaly Zverev, Scientific Advisor of the II Mechnikov Vaccine and Serum Research Institute expression It is the opinion of experts that if Ebola is imported into Russia, the disease will be localized very quickly. He added that there will be no epidemic or serious epidemic in the country.